Práticas sustentáveis no espaço rural. Caso de estudo S. Pedro do Rio Seco (Almeida, Guarda)

Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe Rural Area is undergoing in a profound process of social and land use changes. Previously there were consistent villages, result of the main activity, agriculture. Now does villages are characterless spaces and are devoted to the abandonment. Their populations had left, searching for better life and work conditions. In consequence the activity that they took care has lost its meaning and has been replaced by others, more passive and extensive uses. The Rural is now a an unstructured space that needs to be redefined, the return to the previous situation is no longer a solution because the social condition was dramatically change, it rises the requirement of an adaption to the current conditions, a structured and holistic change. This paper takes the case study of a village where such evidence shows to be in progress, S. Pedro do Rio Seco. The elaboration of this proposal, aims to provide, that with demonstrative and technical methods based on Sustainable Development, respecting the ecological and aesthetic values of the landscape, it would be possible to provide a future in where the traditional practices allied with the scientific knowledge benefits the rural restructure and sustainability